[MasterYoda]

The last time it happened, the Russian ship had also been seen unnaturally going back and forth over the cable where the damage occurred. These damages do not happen by themselves. Considering the current international situation and the fact that it happened in a short time in several places unnaturally in a limited region, the Baltic Sea, you have to be very naive if you do not see this as probable sabotage.

[amelius]

Do we have some kind of time-of-flight system that can find out exactly where a cable damage occurred, the instant that it occurs?

[trollied]

This: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread-spectrum_time-domain_re...

[vlan0]

I think you mean C-OTDR?

https://www.anritsu.com/en-us/test-measurement/products/mw90...

[pvaldes]

The "Yi Peng 3", a Chinese ship that parted from a Russian Port, has been located near both cables just before they were cut. The ship was detained in NATO water, and now faces an investigation.

Currently, all points to a deliberate act of hybrid warfare

[alenrozac]

There's repeaters so the general area should be known.

[UltraSane]

They can measure the location of the break to centimeters by timing how long a light pulse takes to reflect back to the emitter. It is called time-domain reflectometry.

[amelius]

Ok, then was it used? And if not, why not?

[UltraSane]

It was almost certainly used.

[amelius]

What was the response?

[s800]

yes, OTDR

[autokad]

well, we did blow up their pipeline, so not like we didnt open the salvo for making international resources fair game

[twixfel]

It was 50% funded by the west so it was much ours as theirs. I think it was rightly bombed by Ukraine anyway, not nato.

[UltraSane]

Either Russia or Ukraine blew it up.

[mantas]

Who is „we“?

[autokad]

you can call it NATO

[mantas]

So, Germany?

[deanCommie]

Your profile says you're in Lithuania. Lithuania is part of NATO.

IF this was an officially sanctioned mission by a NATO country, then you're part of the "we".

That's kind of the deal with alliances.

[mantas]

Yes. But in this case it's not known who did this. One NATO member is trying to pin it on Ukraine. But evidence is scarce. Personally I'm 50/50 whether this was russian false-flag or combined effort of some NATO members and Ukraine.

[immibis]

Hello Mr Internet Research Agency employee,

A random Lithuanian person is not Germany.

Hope this helps.